I still have a clock radio. Current incarnation is only a few years old and automatically resets itself for daylight savings time which is a nice feature. I wake up often during night and I like to be able to see what time it is. In the morning, I like to be eased gently out of sleep by music, then hit snooze and have a cuddle with the dogs for a bit. I hate waking to beeps, chirps, or bells, though I will use my phone sometimes if need to wake up from a nap.
We used to wake up to the TV, but our current model doesn’t have that option, so it’s a clock radio for us. And just for insurance purposes, it’s across the room where both of us can see the time and where we have to get out of bed to turn it off, preventing unwanted snooze-alarming or turning it off by accident.
I use my flip phone alarm daily to remind me when to leave work - I lose track of time when I’m deep into a task. I also use it when I travel, if necessary.
I use a clock radio at home. If I’m at a hotel, I don’t always trust that the in-room clock radio will work, so I use my phone instead. My phone wakes me up with Kesha’s “TiK ToK.”
At home, I use my alarm clock when I have to work. When I travel, even if there is an alarm clock in the hotel, I use my iPhone.
Habit more than any other reason.
I still use an alarm clock, the same I’ve had for about 12 years.
The last time I tried to use my smartphone to wake up, it not only didn’t ring the following morning but did ring almost 2 months later on my first day off in months.
March-September sunrise wakes me in good time naturally. I still own and use my radio-with-a-timer, but ever more often just as a radio. For clock purposes there’s the display on a cable box in the room.
I began using my mobile as travel alarm due to so many hotel clock radios having horrible station reception and/or many hotels switching to odd devices I can’t make heads or tails of to set or tune (really, who asked for that? Did they have that bad a problem of people stealing clock radios?) From there, mission creep has turned it into by now my most frequent wakeup appliance even at home.
Another “no phone in the bedroom overnight” person, at least at home, so I still use an alarm clock (set to music) as primary with wife (set to irritated) as backup. When I travel I use an alarm app on my phone. Alarm app wake up music is, and has been for years, “Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked” by Cage the Elephant.
I voted “retired,” but when I do need to wake up at a specific time, I use a cheap clock-radio I got at Target about ten years ago. I always sleep with earplugs, and the alarm on my phone isn’t quite loud enough.
I love my phone as an alarm clock. Firstly, I can set an alarm for M-F but not Sat and Sun. And the alarm fires every day it should, I don’t have to set it each day.
As far as having a phone in my bedroom at night, I have the sounds/notifications set to be silent after 11pm unless someone calls.
Also if I need other alarms it’s as easy as saying “ok google, wake me at 6:30 am.” That extra alarm doesn’t interfere with already-existing ones.
Indeed. After having a few failures with hotel alarm clocks and wake-up calls (in the days before smartphones), I wound up getting a travel alarm clock. Now, my iPhone provides the same security.
I still have the same clock radio/alarm I’ve had since the 90s. It has a cassette player in it!
I don’t use a daily alarm clock (I have a dog who has impeccable time keeping) but up until recently I would use the old alarm clock for when I needed to get up early for an appointment.
Then I figured out that setting the alarm makes me anxious and I don’t sleep very well. So I tried using my iPhone alarm, which I set well in advance (instead of right before bed) and I do much better.
So, technically I still have an alarm clock but I never use it much, and now suddenly I use it a lot less. I do use it as a clock though.
I have a clock radio I bought in the 1980s that I absolutely love. It has two alarm settings, which is great for the weekdays and the weekend. However, the absolutely best feature is that the snooze minutes are adjustable from 1 to more than 10 (possibly 15, but have never checked). I love the 6-minute sleep. Hitting the snooze button 10 times lets me “sleep” for an extra hour!
I don’t use an alarm clock, since I’m one of those people who just wakes up at the right time. But, for a clock near my bed I use an old-style clock-radio. I will use my iPhone if I’m traveling and the place where I’m sleeping has no clock.
When I need to make sure I’m up, I use my phone.
I’m actually surprised that answer isn’t the majority in today digital age.
Of course there’s the old standby of calling the front desk to give you wakeup call.
However my memory is that when you requested a wake up call at a certain time, then that’s when you got the call; nowadays it seems like it’s only a suggestion. Not that I’ve used the hotel front desk wake up service much lately.
I am almost always awake and get up before the alarm. It goes off maybe once a year. This has been true for the last 60 years. This leads me to believe I am a true morning person, as I don’t have any particular strong ability of self discipline - which would be the choice in the poll that is nearest to my behavior - but I didn’t vote as it really doesn’t fit.
I have the same GE clock radio I’ve had since 1982, I think. It has two alarms on it and a cassette player, and I don’t know if that part works. Very big and heavy, built to last.
Hah! I’m 44, and I’m on my 2nd clock-radio in my life. I got my first one when I was maybe 8, and used it until I was about 22 or so, when I wanted to be able to set more than one alarm at a time.
I bought a GE model with two settable alarms in 1994, and I’m still using it today.+
Same with me.
Also, I’m not sure how loud the alarm is on my (dumb) phone, and I tend to sleep with earplugs, and my clock radio is loud enough that it wakes me up.
I use the timer on my tv, which wakes me every morning to the local news.